Show THE TEM LEFT TYE EYE translated FROM THE RUSSI Alf A rich man who resided at the extra extremity mity of the scamp camp quite apart from the res had three daughters daugh Lers tha yo of whom named mined Kooi ciu was the most I 1 distinguished dis for her beauty as well vell as her extraordinary wisdom one morning as he ha was dri driving vinglis Ais cattle for sale to the chins chans market place he begged hu his daughters to tell him what presents pre thuy thoy wished him to bring to them on his return the two eldest asked him for trinkets tut but the handsome and wisa a kooij u said that she wanted no but that she had a request to make which it would be difficult and even dangerous I 1 for hin him to execute upon winch bilich the uther father who loved ajr h r more than the he two others swore that he would do her bar wish though it were ware at the price of his life if it be so replied 1 I beg you to do as follows soil sail all your cattle except the short tailed ox i i vad und ask boother no other price for I 1 it except the CHANS LEFT EYE tin old man startled however how evar remembering liis oath and ceaf confiding id I 1 in his daughters wisdom I 1 i I 1 he ru resolved solved to do as sh she 0 b bade de him I 1 after having sold all his catle ca tle and bei being og asked the price of tile the short tailed ox he said that he h would sell it for nolting no hing else but the tha chans left eye the report of this singular and dating daring request soon reached ins chans courtiers at first they admonished him not to use such an offensive spee speech c h against the sovereign I 1 but who when n they foan found id that he persevered in his I 1 strauda str auga demand they bound him and carried him before tile chan tae old man threw himself before the I 1 duns chans feet and conf confessed assed that it had been made at 63 request ot nis his daughter ol of whose motives he be was entirely ignorant and the chan suspecting that some rome secret must be hidden under this extraordinary request dismissed tm old man under the condi ion that lie would bring him the daughter who made it appeared and the chan asked way diets thou instruct thy father to demand my mv left eye eve because I 1 expect my prince that after so a request curiosity would urge thee to send for in 3 I 1 wish to tall thee a truth imbor ant to thyself th and thy people name it prince replied kook ju when two persons appear before thee in a cause the wealthy and the noble generally stand on thy right liand hand while the poor and humble stand on thy left I 1 have heard beard in my solitude I 1 that tho ho i most frequently fa favor vorest sst the noble and the rich this is the reason why I 1 persuaded my father to ask for khy lerr LEFT EYE I 1 L being no use to thee since gince thou never seest he poor and unprotected tile the chan incensed and surprised at tho during daring of I 1 Ws this maiden commanded his court to try her the court was opened and the president who was th the 0 eldest lama proposed that they should try fry whether her strange proceeding was the effect of malica or wisdom 0 the first step was to send to a log of wood cut even ou on all sides ordering her to find out on which was the root and which the top threw i ino inlo the water and aad soon knew the answer on seeing the I 1 root sinking whilst the ae op lop i rose rosa to the surface I 1 from this trial the court was convinced had not offended the chan from motives of malice I 1 but the inspiration of the wisdom granted from above but not so with the chan his vanity was hurt and I 1 he resolved to puzzle her with questions ons in order to prove rove that she was not wise he therefore ordered eer her b bifora fora him and aad asked I 1 on sanding a number of maidens into the wood to gather apples which of them will bring home most she replied who instead of climbing up ahe trees remains below and picks up those that had fallen off from maturity or shaking of the branches tile the chan then led her to a fen and asked her which would be the readiest readies way to go gat over it and said to cross it would be the farther est going rodna nearest ane chan felt fait vexed at the readiness and propriety of her replis re plia 4 and aber aaser having laced ref aued for some time lime he again enquired which is the safest way of becoming known to 1 many i by assisting many that are unknown which is the ae most sure sam means of always leading t virtuous life to begin every morning with prayer and con uda auda every evening with a good action who is ruly raly wise he who does not believe himself so which are the requisites of a g od ad wife she should be as beautiful as a pea hen gentle as a lamb pruden as a mouse moose just as a faithful mirror pure I 1 as a the scalo scale of a fish she must mourn for her de ceased based husband like a she camel and live in her wid 1 1 like a bird which has los loa its wings the chan was a toni shed at the wisdom of the fair Koo lija yet enraged at hor her having reproached him hi n wih wi h injustice he be still wished to destroy her i aate a few days he thought he had found means for far at laining his object he ha sent for her and asked her to determine the true worth of his treasures af tor ter which he promised to absolve her from malice in questioning his justice ju sice and to admit that hat she intended as a wise woman merel merely y to warn hin him I 1 the tha maiden maidan consented yet yat und under r the condi condition that the chan would pro nise her implicit obedience to her commands for four days she re that he would cat no food during that time on the las day she placed a dish of meat before him and said confess oh chan that all thy trea treasures sires are not gorji us as much as this joint of meat ineat the chan was so strack str ick with the tru truth th of her remark that feat he confess confessed pd the truth of it acknowledged her as wis married her to his son SOD and permitted her con constantly stanly to remind him to use his LEFT EYE I 1 we once knew a shepherd who had a good I 1 sock of sheep but from some peculiar f reak freak of his nature aa ture he became wholly enamored with two or I 1 three ewe lambs which appeared to him of finer and more beautiful of torm form than any others I 1 nd ind with them thought to improve his flock and flourished louri shed them by his bis fire side on the beat bea his hia fairy would aff afford ord but while the shepherd was all his bis time lime wita these pet lambs he i argot the remainder of the flock which perished chills snows and hunger or were devoured I 1 ly wolves except such as were gathered up and taken care of by other shepherds and when the limbs had exha exhausted isted the dairy milk and had grown to b years rears of wisdom and learned the history of their j mother flock and oiin ith what blind partiality their I 1 shepherd had treated them they feared that in process of time the partiality which had been bestowed upon them might be turned against them left their shepherd and his bis social hearth strayed to their native element his neighbors sheepfold sheep fold and the poor lazy partial shepherd was left without I 1 sheep or larnes iambs did any elder in israel ever see a shepherd like thi blind with the left eye I 1 by which he was Cook iwed |